r/discworld • u/meig88 • 2d ago
Roundworld Reference Discworld reference?
Spotted at LAX
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u/SavagePengwyn 2d ago
A coffee klatch (or klatsch) is when a group of people get together to drink coffee and talk. So, probably not, unfortunately.
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u/SopwithTurtle 2d ago
It is a reference, just in the opposite direction.
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u/joined_under_duress 1d ago
TBF if there'd been forums like this in 1980 I imagine someone would have posted some Hot Black Desiato signs when they went through Camden to the HHG2TG sub...
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u/jeobleo 1d ago
Wait. That's a reference to something?
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u/joined_under_duress 1d ago
Hotblack Desiato are an estate agents in North London.
Douglas Adams saw their sign while out and stole it for the series. There's an apology/note at the front of the book of Restaurant at the End of the Universe iirc.
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u/ActualBacchus 2d ago
In this case I'd say its most likely that STP and this airport coffee spot are both referencing the same thing. Two sides of a reference triangle! Edit: two apexes? Apexi?
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u/lonezolf 2d ago
Apexths
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u/callsignhotdog Stibbons 2d ago
At this point I feel like we need a tag specifically for "We found the thing that STP was referencing".
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u/Fabulous-Oil2942 1d ago
Like a tea party. I thought liberals should have started a Coffee Klatch to balance the progressives' Tea Party.
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u/ratpacklix Colon 2d ago
Kaffeklatsch. Is german for meaning chit-chat with your (mostly) girlfriends while having some pieces of cake/tart/gateau and caffeinated drinks. Mostly held at the weekend at 3 o clock in the afternoon.
We even had a tv show by that name. Gives a good eximpression.
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u/captaindazzlebug 2d ago
'Klatsch' means gossip in German, I assume that's where it's from.
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u/petrified_eel4615 1d ago
Does German get it from Yiddish, or the other way around?
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u/nhaines Esme 1d ago
It's onomatopoeic in German, so Yiddish probably borrowed it. Yiddish is a dialect of Middle High German, although I don't have an etymology of German klatschen that goes back earlier than the 17th century. It seems to have been the same since then. (It means a clapping or slapping sound, but seems to have had the meaning of gossip or idle chatter back then, too.)
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u/tres_liebres 1d ago
It is also a cognate with clash and kloten (Dutch), both meaning types of sound.
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u/Captain_Hesperus 1d ago
“Klatch coffee: Where coffee is the conversation.”
And the conversation is AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH
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u/ChimoEngr 1d ago
Maybe, but not for sure. Coffee klatch has been a term for ages, like over a hundred years ago. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coffee%20klatch Sir Terry most likely decided that it made for a funny name for a nation, and since coffee culture is a big part of the middle east, smashed the two ideas together.
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u/Last-Economy9336 1d ago
This is absolutely a reference. Yes, "klatch" is a known reference to what the English speaking world calls a "coffee break." But pTerry picked up on it and made it a country that produced coffee that would put you right over the line into hyper-awareness. For someone to make their coffee shop "Klatch," they had to understand what "Knurd" means. [Or, weren't very literate. Luck is always a possibility.]
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